Monday morning's Lull Report …

… courtesy of Dave Lull:



… The University Bookman: Unveiling the Obvious.

Enthralled to the mechanistic picture of reality, modern persons—even devout believers—have a hard time envisioning God’s relationship to nature through any other conceptual lens than efficient causality, positing him as the one who bestows on matter its appearance and proper functioning. Hence the ubiquitous, though irritatingly imprecise, image of God the watchmaker. But this is to turn God into only one more being among beings, robbing him of his unique status as Being itself, and the origin of all other beings, complete with the remarkable philosophical ramifications this status bears. Modern atheists, for all of their supposed fury against theistic belief, have only ever aimed their barbs at a supreme being, and thus have never “actually written a word about God.”

… Q&A with Tom Wolfe: THE BIZARRE AND THE JEJUNE.

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way. When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen. So I continued my interest in writing. And then I went off to graduate school.

… Who knew? — The Endangered Art of the Movie Novelization.

… The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?

Well, let's just say Montaigne's position still seems secure.

I must run. So this brief report will have to do until I return.